Save Point Podcast Episode 19
Jun 24, 2010 Band News, Band News, Podcasts
Now that we’re on a weekly schedule, we can’t have guests EVERY week. Although we’d like to. Regardless, we sat down this week and chatted about the new iPhone 4, Droid X, the earthquake that hit Canada and us, crappy music, an update on shows around Erie, and more. Also, this week is our first ever contest. Email us at savepointband@gmail.com with your definition of what a “Harry Potter” is if it was a sexual move. Best description wins a Save Point t-shirt.
Mid-Break Stuff:
Spose – I’m Awesome – http://www.myspace.com/spose
Last Comic Standing – http://www.hulu.com/last-comic-standing
Seasick Steve – Diddly Bo - http://www.myspace.com/seasicksteve
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Save Point in the Movies 3
Oct 22, 2009 Band News
I had an idea for another Photoshop! Ethereal Mike nods in approval.
Shows and Songs
Oct 8, 2009 Band News
We have new live recordings being posted up on our music page shortly here. They should be up on the myspace page as we speak. A lot of newly recorded tracks are up like Halo, Breakout, and a whole bunch more.
Also, be sure to check out the shows page for our upcoming shows. We have quite a few things in the works.
Halo 3: ODST is Awesome
Oct 8, 2009 Band News
As an update and response to my previous blog post about Halo 3: ODST, I just want to say it’s awesome. I love it. It met and exceeded all my expectations. Our Halo specific podcast episode is coming out today so look forward to that later.
ODST Should Renew My Ha-Love
Sep 20, 2009 Band News, Uncategorized
It’s been years since I’ve sat down in front of my television with the express intent to play Halo 1. I would say almost too many years. 
That’s sad really, because that game kindled something that I haven’t really felt since. It was a great game in it’s own right for the simple fact that it blew away any of my expectations that I had in regards to my return to console gaming. Being a hardcore FPS fan on the PC, I wasn’t sure what to anticipate with this bastardization of my favorite game genre. FPS on a console? PISH POSH! Still, it worked, and it worked well.
There was something about that game that I could sit for hours and days just replaying through the campaign. The first night I beat it my father walked in and said, “You beat it already? That was a waste of $50.” I laugh now because my father was the one who got me into gaming and shares that passion with me. So it wasn’t an off-hand remark saying “You wasted money on that stupid video game,” but more of a “I think the developers screwed you.” But I enjoyed it, every minute of it. So much so that I returned to that world over and over again. Both in singleplayer and in co-op with friends. Sometimes on the hardest and sometimes on the easiest, I beat Halo: CE more than any other story campaign in any game. I never grew tired of it.
Then came Halo 2. By now I had a community of friends who enjoyed playing multiplayer with me, but would still do co-op runs all the time as well. They shared my passion. Yet Halo 2 fell short for some reason. In hindsight, the game felt more linear and directed than the first game. In all honest, I think I’ve only beaten that game about 3-4 times over the years. I know in itself that can be a lot, but still. When compared to how much I played it’s predecessor, that’s nothing. I felt like there was something wrong with me. And again the same thing happened with Halo 3. Was there something I was missing? Some small detail that I didn’t enjoy to it’s fullest? Dammit, what’s wrong?
It took until I was talking with Ryan on the podcast a few episodes ago to make me come to a psuedo realization. Halo: CE had this almost “open world” aspect to some of the levels that I loved the most. These huge areas that I could take on in almost any fashion. When I think about it, almost all of my fondest memories are on Silent Cartographer driving circles around this huge island and attacking things I knew I was supposed to come upon later.
Or in the level Halo where you first land on the ring and have this huge world to take on in any way you’d like. It was liberating. It was like a mini sandbox for me to play in as much as I’d like. It was a false freedom that I cherished in trying to push the boundaries in as much as possible.
So now it’s time for ODST to release this Tuesday. Once again, I’m excited. It sucks that I can’t spend the time I want to with it upon it’s release like I would when I was younger, but after hearing about this open hub-world and the sandbox-like gameplay, I am truly excited. It’s as if Bungie has gotten back to the roots it started with in this series. So hopefully this will help me get back to mine. Man, I want to play some Halo 1 now. Anyone up for a game of co-op?
~Josh Britt
Videos From Summer Beach Show
Sep 14, 2009 Band News
Someone was kind enough to upload videos of one of our summer shows at the beach cottage. Check them out in the videos section!
Save Point in the Movies 2
Jul 28, 2009 Band News
Josh’s last post inspired me to come up of some movie photoshops of my own. I think the one of Josh turned out pretty well, the one of Ryan kind of sucks (sorry Ryan). Also color corrected the one of me that Josh did to match the source image, because I’m anal retentive.
Save Point In The Movies
Jul 27, 2009 Band News
So I got bored and decided to photoshop a couple band members into various films using images from our recent photo shoot. Kudos to those who can name which movies (they seem pretty easy to me).
~Josh
Podcast Influences
Jul 20, 2009 Band News
For those of you who may dig what we are affectionately calling a “podcast” (I think of it more as the four of us doing what we always do and just bullshitting), here’s where some of my influences come for doing it. I’ve done podcasting for years, but since my last one I’ve been a big fan of:
TalkRadar
Actually there are a bunch more, but I think those are so far my most favorite and influential. Check them out, most of them are pretty timeless.
